Lake Untersee
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Status Report 24 November 2012, Lake Untersee, Antarctica

by Keith Cowing

We are now fully operational at the Lake Untersee, all the tents are up and the weather has been cooperating nicely with little wind and sunny skies. I guess we need […]

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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Status Report 21 November 2012, Novolazarevskaya Station, Antarctica

by Keith Cowing

Received from Dale Andersen Novolazarevskaya Station, Antarctica, on 21 November 2012 via Iridium email:

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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen’s Field Reports: Lake Untersee, Antarctica (Gigapixel Panorama) 7 March 2012

by Keith Cowing

Three and a half billion years ago our planet was quite different and Earth’s earliest biosphere was dominated by microbial communities – complex multicellular organisms were not to evolve for […]

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Video: Astrobiologists Diving Under The Ice In Antarctica: Getting Out of the Water

by Keith Cowing

Dale Andersen: Our research in the perennially ice-covered lakes of Antarctica involves long, hard days, but they are always fun and exciting.

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Diving Through A Microbial Landscape in Lake Untersee, Antarctica

by Keith Cowing

There’s not much in the ice-covered lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys to interest anglers looking to land the big one. But for scientists who want to know more about […]

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In Situ Measurements of Atmospheric Methane at Lake Untersee, Antarctica

by Keith Cowing

Methane (CH4) is an important greenhouse gas in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for approximately 20% of the observed greenhouse effect. With an atmospheric lifetime of about ten years, methane levels […]

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